Stillness 6-6

penetrate your sense of beauty.

We have a lot more senses than just the five we typically think we have. We have a sense of balance, for example, and a sense of hot and cold, and a sense of language, and a sense of our self versus the other, to name just a few. We also have a sense of beauty. This goes beyond the mere visual pleasure we experience when we see outward beauty. It has to do with a sense of harmony and perfection. The Ancient Greeks equated beauty with a kind of morality: aesthetics and ethics were intertwined. Perfection was linked to the idea of truth (not our current concept that it’s linked to obsessiveness or control). Beauty’s presence in our lives was deemed essential. Let us pay extra attention to the harmony and peace that beauty instills in us. Let us notice how our frequency vibrates at a higher level when we penetrate the beauty of nature, or a work of art, or a song – and when we let beauty permeate us in return.